Taking a cue from architect Frank Gehry, she has designed a line of sculptured corrugated cardboard lounging furniture for cats, priced from $220 on her website, www.kittypod.com. In this firmament, O’Neal isn’t a star among stars but the sun in their solar system.O’Neal’s image is built on charm, not accessibility, so few media people who aren’t from a sponsoring network get him. “But I screwed it up.”He said he prays for forgiveness.”God came to heal sinners, not perfect people, and I am one of them,” he said.Record ExposedWithin three months of getting out of prison for embezzlement, Brito became program director at a youth center called A Place Called Home in South-Central Los Angeles. Page A15*Last round of root beers to goRemember how you’d drive into the drive-in, push the order button and the food would be roller-skated out to hang on your car window while you checked out all the other people checking out other people? And the root beer glass was all frosty?Well, all that’s coming to an end in Ontario this weekend with the closing of the local A&W, the last root beer stand in Southern California with carhop service. Musharraf wants the outgoing legislature, not an incoming one, to have the authority to reelect him to another term. Bob Dole and John Glenn, honorary co-chairmen of the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.Sandy Scott, a spokesman for the council, refused to address the fact that the award was given to a condemned killer.After nearly three days of attempts by Associated Press to get a comment, Scott e-mailed a response saying the awards are approved by nominating organizations, not the council.Williams was nominated for the award by William A. “If I want to serve my community, I have to look at other opportunities.”Council members are limited to two four-year terms, a law that several members lamented when the well-respected Cindy Miscikowski was forced to leave office July 1 after two terms.Term limits have created an environment in which politicians who want to spend a career in public service hop from office to office, staying a step ahead of being forced out.A stark example emerged in June when Herb Wesson, a former Assembly speaker — as Villaraigosa is — announced that he was running for the vacant 10th District seat on the City Council but wouldn’t commit to serve even one full term with an election for county supervisor coming up in 2008.”This is definitely what term limits has wrought, but it’s also a sign of our times: that everybody lives life so far in the future,” Councilman Eric Garcetti said.

An estimated 3 million to 6 million cats and dogs are still euthanized nationally each year, according to the Humane Society of the United States. The main downfall of Mama’s carts was that they were required to stay in one spot and could not roam the park, Reyes said.Indeed, unlike Martinez and Figueroa, not all vendors made money and there was a constant rotation of participants in the city-sponsored program.Colletti said another problem was that the illegal vendors continued to sell nearby. He followed with a five-over 75 that left him tied for 32nd at 10-over 220.There were plenty of doses of humility.It was a wonder that Ferrie held up, given he has had trouble controlling his temper in the past and Winged Foot tends to bring out the worst in people.”I wear my heart on my sleeve and that’s how I play golf,” Ferrie said “That’s just it. As he would do again, he befriended a Catholic family with young boys.

CEDAR CITY, Utah This scenic high-desert town is preparing with grim determination for the melting of a monster snowpack in the mountains above, which could release a spectacular flood.Crews are raising the bed of a state highway and fortifying ditches, the city engineer is praying for gradual warming that would release water slowly over time, and elected officials are preemptively declaring a state of emergency they may not need for a month.The decree allows two counties to call on the Army Corps of Engineers on a moment’s notice for heavy equipment if flooding strikes southern Utah, which has snowpacks of as much as 372% of normal at some high-mountain locations.”That snowpack — it’s scary,” said Jim Allan, city manager of Midway Valley, a 9,800-foot mountain saddle near the snowed-in Cedar Breaks National Monument that looms over this town. Sitting upright sealed the deal, with blood pooling in lower extremities, away from my brain.At the emergency room, after doctors ruled out any serious problem, I was sent home with tips on how not to faint.At the top of the list, for me anyway — lie down during a medical procedure.. On day two, he mixes in a second yeast, and by the end of day three, having stirred his bubbling solutions twice a day throughout, he has a liquid with 13% alcohol. But while eight involved metal bats and two involved wood bats, in seven instances the kind of bat wasn’t known.With the pending switch to wood bats in North Dakota, and a study underway comparing injuries among college players using aluminum bats to those playing in wood bat summer leagues, there is hope for some scientific data.But many coaches and officials insist balls fly off aluminum bats faster than they do wood bats.”The exit velocity off aluminum bats is dangerous,” said Jonathan Harper, associate commissioner of the Northeast-10 Conference, one of the few college conferences in the nation that uses wood bats “I don’t care what it’s [exit velocity] set at It’s still metal hitting the ball instead of wood.”. Right now, though, they’re running mostly on gas while Ford resolves issues with the city.Even so, the flatbreads are turning out just fine after a befuddled start. Despite death and devastation, “God is still here.”When reading the psalms, many in the crowd closely followed their copies of the Hebrew texts. Those links, which have no graphics, generated fewer than 10 complaints by e-mail, Dando said.

In 1986, he sold the vineyard to Seagram & Sons, the owner of Sterling Vineyards in northern Napa, for a reported $8.5 million–a record per-acre price at the time.His third wife, Veronica, a Canadian sculptor and painter, had helped formulate the idea of placing the collection on public display; the Seagram deal left them more than 200 acres, the house and the lake, as well as the capital to erect two new gallery buildings. 1 for the party.”Kadima’s platform calls for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and many fear a loss of momentum toward that goal if Sharon is absent from the scene.”Kadima without Sharon doesn’t have legs,” said Arthur Hughes, a former deputy assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs now affiliated with the Middle East Institute, an independent Washington-based think tank.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who telephoned Olmert on Thursday to convey good wishes, said he was following news of the prime minister’s health “with great worry.”Many Palestinians still harbor deep mistrust of Sharon even after the Gaza pullout, in large measure because of his baldly stated intention of retaining West Bank land on which several large Jewish settlement blocks lie. Look on the bright side, you’ll be paying Brian Grant $14 million to sit right along with you.*THE DODGERS are 6-2, but not everyone is as happy as I am:DARI MACKENZIE called to say: “I’ve been a season-ticket holder since 1972,” and she has been receiving a recorded message for the last three days every time she tries to call the Dodgers with a request for a “happy birthday” for her husband on the message board at Dodger Stadium today.”I even went to the Dodgers’ website, wrote a polite e-mail, hit the ’send message’ button and it went to another page with a note saying the website was under construction,” Mackenzie said. Here’s the latest:Went to the NBC party at the Century Club, having dinner high on the list of my motivations.

The slender fingers barely touch Picasso’s fleshier hand, at the pinkie, as if to draw a current of energy from one to the other.Two different etching techniques distinguish the figures. Nell Soto (D-Pomona), the bill’s sponsor, in a statement Thursday.The code system, which has been in place since July 2002, has been widely characterized as a costly bureaucratic mess, with doctors’ offices and laboratories reporting incomplete or erroneous information to local health departments. Jim Tracy has formally asked the Dodgers for a contract extension, wanting to ensure that if he is going to endure the lean times, he will be around to enjoy the fruits of his labor.The request came during one of several meetings the manager had recently with General Manager Paul DePodesta, sources said Tuesday. They didn’t have a process for customer service, billing or shipping In fact, they didn’t even have any products to sell.